July Worknight - Introduction to Github

[connorsb]

GOALS:
Introduce Github as a collaborative tool for code & for documents to the wider public in Pittsburgh.
Key items to hit:

• Features and Benefits - why use this tool?
• What other tools exist in this space?
• What kinds of things are on Github?
• Username Creation
• Setup of Profile
• Create a Repo from scratch
• First Commit
• Markdown
• Introduction to collaboration
  FINALLY
• introduce project!

TO DO

• Add Save the Date to Civic Tech Newsletter
• Add H Day Save the Date to Civic Tech Newsletter
• Plan Curriculum
• Construct Agenda
• Set up Meetup
• Schedule Tweets (via Buffer)

[connorsb]

@csheldonhess suggests: https://github.com/anchorageprogramming/github101 as potential curriculum.

[csheldonhess]

Or at least part of a curriculum. It doesn't go into creating issues.

And it's based on the GUI version, which may or may not be the right choice.